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His Peculiarities.
and bosh requesting that I should procure
its insertion in the Times, Punch, &c. I stuck
it in the letter-boxes of the penny illustrated papers,
in the notices to correspondents of which fugitive
verses of Growler s afterwards appeared of
his subsequent sending of course unpaid for. In
one case certain of his lines were subject to emenda-
tions, when he wrote an abusive letter to the editor!
Well, to return to his recent venture; he confiden-
tly expected that Bellew would remit the money
by return of post! There s method in Banks
madness, too; he didn t try to borrow of me,
this afternoon, though he must suppose me
flush of money, from my presumed recent em-
ployment for the London News. He would
have taken money from Boweryem unscrupulous-
ly enough, caring as much about paying him
as he did about paying me, Haney, and the
rest of us, six or seven years ago. He has
had steady employment for five years, always
living up to, or rather anticipating his income.
He never seemed to have any money, but never
denied himself anything; he was smoking a
cigar when I met him this afternoon. He
fuddled himself perpetually. There s no help-
ing him except by quarters, when it comes
| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Sixteen: page seventeen |
| Description: | Describes Banks. |
| Date: | 1861-03-08 |
| Subject: | Banks, A.F.; Bellew, Frank; Boweryem, George; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Haney, Jesse; Illustrated London news. |
| Coverage (City/State): | [New York, New York] |
| Scan Date: | 2010-05-24 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Sixteen |
| Description: | Includes Gunn's descriptions of the scene in New York at the commencement of the Civil War, boarding house living, visits to the Edwards family, Mort Thomson's engagement to Fanny Fern's daughter Grace Eldredge, Frank Cahill's return to New York from London, Frank Bellew's dissatisfaction with living in England, Thomas Nast's engagement to Sally Edwards, the scene in New York during the departure of the 7th New York Regiment for Washington, attending the wedding of Olive Waite and Hamilton Bragg, a visit with Frank Cahill to the camp of the 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers and the 2nd Regiment of New York State Militia on Staten Island, the death of Charles Welden, and his reporting work. |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marriage; Military; Publishers and publishing; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York |
| Note: | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
| Publisher: | Missouri History Museum |
| Rights: | Copyright 2010 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
